Viola
@viorogeny.bsky.social
Garden ecologist specializing in CA natives 🌱 ornithologist 🐧 fermentationist 🥬 SF Bay Area | Italy | USVI | NYC | Antarctica
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What we know, 10:20pm
—VA Dems flip Gov, LG, *and* AG
—BIG Dem gains in VA House
—Dems win NJ-Gov
—Mamdani wins
—Dems keep PA supreme court
—Larry Krasner & Bragg win
— GA Dems flip 2 statewide offices
—JD Vance’s half-brother loses Cincy
—Dems sweep Orlando council
—ME anti-mail vote measure loses
—VA Dems flip Gov, LG, *and* AG
—BIG Dem gains in VA House
—Dems win NJ-Gov
—Mamdani wins
—Dems keep PA supreme court
—Larry Krasner & Bragg win
— GA Dems flip 2 statewide offices
—JD Vance’s half-brother loses Cincy
—Dems sweep Orlando council
—ME anti-mail vote measure loses
November 5, 2025 at 3:19 AM
What we know, 10:20pm
—VA Dems flip Gov, LG, *and* AG
—BIG Dem gains in VA House
—Dems win NJ-Gov
—Mamdani wins
—Dems keep PA supreme court
—Larry Krasner & Bragg win
— GA Dems flip 2 statewide offices
—JD Vance’s half-brother loses Cincy
—Dems sweep Orlando council
—ME anti-mail vote measure loses
—VA Dems flip Gov, LG, *and* AG
—BIG Dem gains in VA House
—Dems win NJ-Gov
—Mamdani wins
—Dems keep PA supreme court
—Larry Krasner & Bragg win
— GA Dems flip 2 statewide offices
—JD Vance’s half-brother loses Cincy
—Dems sweep Orlando council
—ME anti-mail vote measure loses
A carpet of Grindelia, Erigeron, and lupine on the Sea Ranch bluff trail #californianativeplants
June 28, 2025 at 3:04 PM
A carpet of Grindelia, Erigeron, and lupine on the Sea Ranch bluff trail #californianativeplants
Dudleya farinosa at Sea Ranch, chalky and non chalky versions of the same plant growing just a few feet from each other. #californianativeplants
June 28, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Dudleya farinosa at Sea Ranch, chalky and non chalky versions of the same plant growing just a few feet from each other. #californianativeplants
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This time-lapse video of protesters marching down Broadway in Oakland for No Kings Day gives an idea of how many people turned out today @sfchronicle.com
June 14, 2025 at 11:07 PM
This time-lapse video of protesters marching down Broadway in Oakland for No Kings Day gives an idea of how many people turned out today @sfchronicle.com
Dolores Park, San Francisco, 6/14/25. Couldn’t see the end of the crowd. #NoKingsDay
June 15, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Dolores Park, San Francisco, 6/14/25. Couldn’t see the end of the crowd. #NoKingsDay
Pacific Reedgrass (Calamagrostis nutkaensis) in full bloom
#californianativeplants
#californianativeplants
June 11, 2025 at 5:09 AM
Pacific Reedgrass (Calamagrostis nutkaensis) in full bloom
#californianativeplants
#californianativeplants
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The largest land back deal in state history so far
#CaliforniaNativePlants
#NativePlants
#LandBack
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#CaliforniaNativePlants
#NativePlants
#LandBack
apnews.com/article/yuro...
California's Yurok Tribe gets back ancestral lands that were taken over 120 years ago
Roughly 73 square miles of ancestral homelands once belonging to California’s Yurok Tribe have been returned to them.
apnews.com
June 5, 2025 at 3:44 PM
The largest land back deal in state history so far
#CaliforniaNativePlants
#NativePlants
#LandBack
apnews.com/article/yuro...
#CaliforniaNativePlants
#NativePlants
#LandBack
apnews.com/article/yuro...
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It’s Tiburon mariposa lily season, a highly endangered species, limited to a few acres of serpentine outcrops on Ring Mountain, Marin County. Alien satellite dishes come to mind
#CaliforniaNativePlants
#NativePlants
#RingMountain
#SFBayArea
#CaliforniaNativePlants
#NativePlants
#RingMountain
#SFBayArea
May 26, 2025 at 6:21 PM
It’s Tiburon mariposa lily season, a highly endangered species, limited to a few acres of serpentine outcrops on Ring Mountain, Marin County. Alien satellite dishes come to mind
#CaliforniaNativePlants
#NativePlants
#RingMountain
#SFBayArea
#CaliforniaNativePlants
#NativePlants
#RingMountain
#SFBayArea
I got this yellow hummingbird sage from the Bay Natives nursery years ago and it was a half dead stem with a single green leaf on it. I stuck it in the ground and forgot about it. It’s now happily taking over one corner of my shady San Francisco backyard. #salviaspathacea #californianativeplants
June 3, 2025 at 4:59 PM
I got this yellow hummingbird sage from the Bay Natives nursery years ago and it was a half dead stem with a single green leaf on it. I stuck it in the ground and forgot about it. It’s now happily taking over one corner of my shady San Francisco backyard. #salviaspathacea #californianativeplants
My SF shade garden is thriving! There are 7 California native plants in this photo, can you name them all? #californianativeplants
June 3, 2025 at 2:50 PM
My SF shade garden is thriving! There are 7 California native plants in this photo, can you name them all? #californianativeplants
A carpenter bee checking out my pink California poppies this morning 😍 #californianativeplants
June 2, 2025 at 7:13 PM
A carpenter bee checking out my pink California poppies this morning 😍 #californianativeplants
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OK, this is wild.
In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them.
It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*.
What the HELL?
1/
In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them.
It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*.
What the HELL?
1/
May 12, 2025 at 3:20 PM
OK, this is wild.
In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them.
It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*.
What the HELL?
1/
In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them.
It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*.
What the HELL?
1/
Hello! Thank you for keeping the rodents at bay.
Please don’t kill these beautiful creatures.
#westernrattlesnake
Please don’t kill these beautiful creatures.
#westernrattlesnake
May 7, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Hello! Thank you for keeping the rodents at bay.
Please don’t kill these beautiful creatures.
#westernrattlesnake
Please don’t kill these beautiful creatures.
#westernrattlesnake
California native wildflowers on Mt Tamalpais two weeks ago #californianativeplants
May 7, 2025 at 1:33 AM
California native wildflowers on Mt Tamalpais two weeks ago #californianativeplants
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🔥🌿 California manzanitas have fire survival down to a science.
Some resprout from underground burls after wildfires.
Others rely on heat or smoke to trigger seed germination.
Two fire strategies. One resilient genus.
#CaliforniaNativePlants #Manzanita #Ecology #FireAdapted
Some resprout from underground burls after wildfires.
Others rely on heat or smoke to trigger seed germination.
Two fire strategies. One resilient genus.
#CaliforniaNativePlants #Manzanita #Ecology #FireAdapted
May 6, 2025 at 2:24 PM
🔥🌿 California manzanitas have fire survival down to a science.
Some resprout from underground burls after wildfires.
Others rely on heat or smoke to trigger seed germination.
Two fire strategies. One resilient genus.
#CaliforniaNativePlants #Manzanita #Ecology #FireAdapted
Some resprout from underground burls after wildfires.
Others rely on heat or smoke to trigger seed germination.
Two fire strategies. One resilient genus.
#CaliforniaNativePlants #Manzanita #Ecology #FireAdapted
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The dose makes the poison.
That’s true of everything. Water. Oxygen. Vitamin A. Vitamin D. Aspartame. Formaldehyde.
Yep, we make 425,000 TIMES MORE formaldehyde every day than what might be in a vaccine.
Read more:
news.immunologic.org/p/every-huma...
That’s true of everything. Water. Oxygen. Vitamin A. Vitamin D. Aspartame. Formaldehyde.
Yep, we make 425,000 TIMES MORE formaldehyde every day than what might be in a vaccine.
Read more:
news.immunologic.org/p/every-huma...
April 9, 2025 at 10:30 PM
The dose makes the poison.
That’s true of everything. Water. Oxygen. Vitamin A. Vitamin D. Aspartame. Formaldehyde.
Yep, we make 425,000 TIMES MORE formaldehyde every day than what might be in a vaccine.
Read more:
news.immunologic.org/p/every-huma...
That’s true of everything. Water. Oxygen. Vitamin A. Vitamin D. Aspartame. Formaldehyde.
Yep, we make 425,000 TIMES MORE formaldehyde every day than what might be in a vaccine.
Read more:
news.immunologic.org/p/every-huma...
Wildflowers on Mt. Tamalpais today: Sparaxis tricolor, Calypso bulbosa, Toxicoscordion fremontii, and Prosartes smithii #californianativeplants
April 4, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Wildflowers on Mt. Tamalpais today: Sparaxis tricolor, Calypso bulbosa, Toxicoscordion fremontii, and Prosartes smithii #californianativeplants
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The Netanyahu government has killed 50,000 people in Gaza & wounded 112,000.
Two weeks ago, they broke the ceasefire and have since killed 322 children & wounded 600.
The US must end its complicity.
Tomorrow, I will force votes to block $8.8 billion in arm sales to Netanyahu.
Two weeks ago, they broke the ceasefire and have since killed 322 children & wounded 600.
The US must end its complicity.
Tomorrow, I will force votes to block $8.8 billion in arm sales to Netanyahu.
April 2, 2025 at 8:41 PM
The Netanyahu government has killed 50,000 people in Gaza & wounded 112,000.
Two weeks ago, they broke the ceasefire and have since killed 322 children & wounded 600.
The US must end its complicity.
Tomorrow, I will force votes to block $8.8 billion in arm sales to Netanyahu.
Two weeks ago, they broke the ceasefire and have since killed 322 children & wounded 600.
The US must end its complicity.
Tomorrow, I will force votes to block $8.8 billion in arm sales to Netanyahu.
I used to study Adélie penguins in the Ross Sea, Antarctica. Here are some of my favorite photos of Adélies at Cape Crozier, Ross Island. #addBirder #antarctica #penguinscience #birds
March 31, 2025 at 4:59 PM
I used to study Adélie penguins in the Ross Sea, Antarctica. Here are some of my favorite photos of Adélies at Cape Crozier, Ross Island. #addBirder #antarctica #penguinscience #birds
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Rare sighting this week of a lovely Coastal Green Hairstreak. They're endangered, so always exciting to witness! This one was feeding on native Seaside Daisy.💚
More on these #butterflies here...
www.inaturalist.org/taxa/210423-...
#NativePlants #CaliforniaNativePlants #NaturePhotos #iNat 📷🌱🦋
More on these #butterflies here...
www.inaturalist.org/taxa/210423-...
#NativePlants #CaliforniaNativePlants #NaturePhotos #iNat 📷🌱🦋
March 29, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Rare sighting this week of a lovely Coastal Green Hairstreak. They're endangered, so always exciting to witness! This one was feeding on native Seaside Daisy.💚
More on these #butterflies here...
www.inaturalist.org/taxa/210423-...
#NativePlants #CaliforniaNativePlants #NaturePhotos #iNat 📷🌱🦋
More on these #butterflies here...
www.inaturalist.org/taxa/210423-...
#NativePlants #CaliforniaNativePlants #NaturePhotos #iNat 📷🌱🦋
Fremontodendron ‘Pacific Sunset,’ from my NE facing front garden in San Francisco. I was worried it wouldn’t make it, but it’s thriving! The only water it gets is from winter rain. As with Arctostaphylos and Ceanothus, drip will kill this summer-dry-adapted native. #californianativeplants
March 30, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Fremontodendron ‘Pacific Sunset,’ from my NE facing front garden in San Francisco. I was worried it wouldn’t make it, but it’s thriving! The only water it gets is from winter rain. As with Arctostaphylos and Ceanothus, drip will kill this summer-dry-adapted native. #californianativeplants
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The 1% evade $163B in taxes per year.
Tesla paid $0 in federal income taxes from 2018 - 2022 & 2024.
Billionaires can write off the cost of their private jets and yachts.
While undocumented immigrants paid $96B in taxes in 2022.
The more you look into it, the crazier it gets.
Tesla paid $0 in federal income taxes from 2018 - 2022 & 2024.
Billionaires can write off the cost of their private jets and yachts.
While undocumented immigrants paid $96B in taxes in 2022.
The more you look into it, the crazier it gets.
March 30, 2025 at 1:45 PM
The 1% evade $163B in taxes per year.
Tesla paid $0 in federal income taxes from 2018 - 2022 & 2024.
Billionaires can write off the cost of their private jets and yachts.
While undocumented immigrants paid $96B in taxes in 2022.
The more you look into it, the crazier it gets.
Tesla paid $0 in federal income taxes from 2018 - 2022 & 2024.
Billionaires can write off the cost of their private jets and yachts.
While undocumented immigrants paid $96B in taxes in 2022.
The more you look into it, the crazier it gets.
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Since January, SpaceX has received over $560 million in government contracts—an amount projected to surpass $2 billion in taxpayer funding by year’s end, averaging roughly $6.1 million per day. Follow the money and see where it goes.
March 28, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Since January, SpaceX has received over $560 million in government contracts—an amount projected to surpass $2 billion in taxpayer funding by year’s end, averaging roughly $6.1 million per day. Follow the money and see where it goes.
Fighting Back: A Citizen’s Guide to Resistance newrepublic.com/article/1931... via @newrepublic.com
Fighting Back: A Citizen’s Guide to Resistance
Ordinary people have more power than they know.
newrepublic.com
March 27, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Fighting Back: A Citizen’s Guide to Resistance newrepublic.com/article/1931... via @newrepublic.com
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Tonight an unbelievable **34,000 people** gathered for our Denver rally to take on billionaires and win our country back.
This was the largest political gathering in Denver since Obama in 2008.
Also bigger than the 2024 DNC.
And the largest ever rally in Bernie’s career (and obviously, mine too).
This was the largest political gathering in Denver since Obama in 2008.
Also bigger than the 2024 DNC.
And the largest ever rally in Bernie’s career (and obviously, mine too).
March 22, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Tonight an unbelievable **34,000 people** gathered for our Denver rally to take on billionaires and win our country back.
This was the largest political gathering in Denver since Obama in 2008.
Also bigger than the 2024 DNC.
And the largest ever rally in Bernie’s career (and obviously, mine too).
This was the largest political gathering in Denver since Obama in 2008.
Also bigger than the 2024 DNC.
And the largest ever rally in Bernie’s career (and obviously, mine too).